Psalms 52:5

Yet ¹  God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. ²  He will scoop you up ³  and remove you from your home; ⁴  he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

But God will break you down forever; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent, And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

But God will strike you down once and for all. He will pull you from your home and drag you from the land of the living. Interlude

God will tear you limb from limb, sweep you up and throw you out, Pull you up by the roots from the land of life.

But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

God shall likewise destroy you forever; He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

Yet ¹  God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. ²  He will scoop you up ³  and remove you from your home; ⁴  he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

¹ tn The adverb גַּם (gam, “also; even”) is translated here in an adversative sense (“yet”). It highlights the contrastive correspondence between the evildoer’s behavior and God’s response.

² tn Heb “will tear you down forever.”

³ tn This rare verb (חָתָה, khatah) occurs only here and in Prov 6:27; 25:22; Isa 30:14.

⁴ tn Heb “from [your] tent.”